Jacob de Bedyngfeld forces William Rous to provide archers
[The jurors] also say that the aforesaid Jacob de Bedyngfeld was a chief congregator at the time of the rising, and came in a warlike manner to the village of Dennington with many others unknown, namely on Saturday 15th June 1381 he came to the house of William Rous, chief constable of the hundred of Hoxne, and forced the aforesaid William Rous under threat of beheading to provide him and his associates with ten archers from the said hundred. The aforesaid William in fear of his life gave up the ten archers from the said hundred, but he received for each of them six pence a day on the order of the said Jacob.
